How To Write The Future

“I think if you're writing truthfully, because that's what we're trying to do a lot of times as author, telling a good story, but being honest in our writing and in terms of the human experience, I t…

“I want to encourage you to have it rooted in heart. In fact, I bet you, it already is. What you care about is what you're writing about. So, Where is the heart in your work?”

In “The Name of the Game…

“Humans have been shaping culture from the very beginning. And we are obviously continuing to do so even today.

And. I really believe that through the stories we tell ourselves, through the stories we…

“All this to say, exercise your creativity. Find ways to put disparate things that don't normally go together, put them together and see what happens. Ask yourself: "What if...?" Such a powerful ques…

“I will invite you to bring all the parts of you into creating an author marketing goal or goals. And a plan, a plan that is doable, sustainable, and oh my gosh, fun.”


In this episode, “Upcoming Write…

“My point here is I want to encourage you that even if you don't see anybody else crafting the kind of story, or living the kind of life that you are, that number one, you're actually not alone becau…

“So how does religion or mysticism fit into your story and how can you make it complex and nuanced and not homogeneous, which is the authors here say is one of the biggest problems they see in people…

“So I lived in France. After the meal, we would have cheese for dessert. That was a common dessert. And when I was in the country, outside of Paris in the Dijon area, dessert was pears and cheese. Th…

“Assumptions are great. What are our conscious and subconscious assumptions of the culture?”


In this episode of How To Write the Future, podcast host Beth Barany celebrates her 100th episode with a sp…

“When it comes to telling a story or crafting or condensing it into a book or a film, what kind of story do you want to tell? And I think that first question is, do I wanna tell an allegorical tale? …

“We are the culture makers. And your book, I feel, really invites people into that in such a beautiful way. “
-- Beth Barany

In this episode of How To Write the Future, podcast host Beth Barany talks w…

“Human brains work. We live in story.”
-- Maggie Ostara


In this episode of How To Write the Future, podcast host Beth Barany talks with Amazon Bestselling author, Maggie Ostara. Together they discuss t…

“I really wanna be able to help writers focus on themselves, be themselves, figure out what they wanna write, and create, a community and a, a library of fiction novels or any kind of novels that the…

“Editing is challenging. So whenever you get lost, feel overwhelmed, confused, just in a state about the editing process, come back to your goal, motivation, conflict about why you write. "


“Know Your…

“I'm trying to be creative and original and all that and so I was like, thinking, yes, but how come we need to have these words in common in order to build a story?”
-- Jennifer Hilt

In this episode o…

“Take the expectations of the genre and spin it. That's our job, is to take what's expected and play around and work through multiple iterations.”


Know Your Genre and Characters. In episode 93 of the …

"You can tell them what a brain freezes, but they'll never feel it. That's right." -- Adam Fleming


In “Creative Writing and AI,” How To Write the Future podcast host Beth Barany talks to author, leade…

“Creativity is our superpower. With the power of our imagination and bringing in curiosity, courage, compassion, and connection.”


Transform Your Novel with These 7 Editing Tips for Bestselling Success…

“Stories are dynamic. Stories need to have action, movement. Stories need to have goals that the character is trying to pursue.”


In this Story Success Clinic session, How To Write Future podcast host,…

“We need courage to do anything creative in life. And I invite you to step into your courage. And decide if now is the time to come and edit your novel with us because creativity is our superpower.”


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